The Baby Mud Bug is a finesse jig trailer with a lot of claw action made to replicate a young spring time crawfish; it is the smaller version of the Mud Bug. The Baby Mud Bug always looks alive when trailing behind a jig because of its design and buoyancy. The live action of the Baby Mud Bug will always yield more strikes over a bait that looks dead. When the bait comes to rest in the water, the design and the buoyancy of the claws allow the bait it to assume a defensive posture with the claws raised up, behaving just like a live crawfish when it feels threaten by a fish — that's exactly what you want because when the fish see these raised claws, its reaction strike time!
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The Baby Mud Bug, with its defensive posture, will pose a threat to the spawning fish triggering a strike. Spawning fish will often strike the bait to kill it and get it out of its space and not eat it, especially spawning female fish. If you try to set the hook and miss the fish, just leave the bait in the fishes space and many times the fish will return to strike again. The Baby Mud Bug should be rigged on a 3/16 to 1/4 ounce finesse jig. If you use a pointed head jig without a flat side on the bottom of its head, that jig will lay over on its side when you stop it in the water – our jig trailers trailers will stop that from happening. The buoyancy of the Baby Mud Bug will stabilize a properly sized and weighted jig, preventing the jig from laying over on its side.